Industry

The Canadian pork industry used to be an agri-food success story      by Konrad Yakabuski – The Globe and Mail Unshackled by the chains of supply management that protected Canada’s…

Beyond Meat cut annual revenue forecast and missed second-quarter net sales estimates, as slowing demand for its pricier plant-based meat products shows no signs of recovery, sending shares down 8%…

Tyson Foods missed Wall Street expectations for third-quarter revenue and profit on Monday, hurt by falling chicken and pork prices as well as slowing demand for its beef products  …

British Columbia’s port workers have voted almost 75 per cent in favour of accepting a contract offer, ending weeks of turbulent job action that stopped billions of dollars’ worth of…

Maple Leaf Foods Inc. said it lost $53.7 million in its most recent quarter as it grappled with inflation and other market headwinds      by Rosa Saba – The Canadian…

Cell-cultivated meat companies could receive new investment since U.S. regulators cleared the product’s sale last month, but the sector must scale up and lower costs to seriously challenge conventional meat,…

Food distributor Sysco Corp missed Wall Street expectations for quarterly sales on Tuesday, as inflation-hit consumers restrict discretionary spending on products such as custom cuts of meat and seafood  …

A late-night breakthrough could herald an end to British Columbia’s long-running port dispute, with the longshore workers’ union and the employers’ association announcing a new tentative agreement      The…

In response to unusual increases in the detection of porcine enteric coronaviruses this summer pork producers are advised to look at what’s happening on their farms that may compromise biosecurity…

Saskatchewan farmers forced to write off drought-afflicted crops are being asked to consider ways to turn those crops into cattle feed instead     by Amanda Stephenson – The Canadian…

Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is offering support to customers in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba facing financial hardship as a result of dry conditions that are impacting crop quality…

U.S. farmers are raising the fewest beef cows since at least 1971, government data released on Friday showed as drought conditions whittled herds, likely boosting costs for meatpackers that slaughter…

Inside an agricultural exhibition building at the Calgary Stampede, kids practise rotating cattle through different areas of pasture, earning “carbon points” as they go if they can avoid under- or…

Two leading farmer-directed organizations, Alberta Barley and the Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC),  are excited to announce the name and logo of their merged commission – Alberta Grains    Newswire The…

A recombined African Swine Fever virus identified in China may prove to be more difficult to detect and less controllable through vaccination    by Bruce Cochrane – Farmscape.ca The Swine Health…

The event aims to promote Black-owned culinary businesses and food professionals unable to afford costly marketing campaigns on their own through complimentary public relationsservices     by Sammy Hades – The…

An analysis of Canadian pork production over the past 30 years shows a continued increase in efficiency and productivity and a shrinking of the sector’s environmental footprint    by Bruce…

A Brazilian labor union has accused JBS of submitting dozens of workers to “degrading conditions,” according to a class action suit filed against the world’s biggest meatpacker and its suppliers…

The Canadian Pork Council and the Canadian Meat Council are calling on the Minister of Transport to give the same protection to perishable agriculture products as grain receives in the British…

A Canadian farmer has been ordered to pay more than C$82,000 ($61,784) in damages over an emoji confusion that a Saskatchewan judge resolved by ruling that a thumbs-up image is…